Channel UI
Each channel page consists of several basic sections: the chat box, the video, the playlist controls, the playlist, and the poll area.

Chat box
At the top, there is a bar with the number of connected users. Clicking this will hide the userlist to expand the message area.

The userlist consists of all the names of users in the channel who are logged in. Right click a name to pop up available actions for that user. If you are not a moderator, you can ignore the user or send them a private message. Moderators can use this menu to kick, ban, and perform other moderating tasks.

At the bottom, there is a chat input bar. If you are not logged in, it will prompt you to choose a guest name. After logging in, simply type your message in the input box and press enter to send it.

Below the chat input there is a button to toggle notification settings for yourself only. There are also two buttons to add text and image emotes.

Scratch pad
This is a custom box we added mostly just cause we thought it was neat :p. It's a scratch pad you can use to make any notes you like while watching. No one else can see the contents of your scratch pad. Make sure you save your notes elsewhere when you're finished watching though because they won't stay there forever!

Playlist controls
Below the video, there are 2 strips of buttons for playlist and video control. Depending on your permission level, certain buttons may be disabled. Hover over each button to see what it does.

On the left are playlist controls:
- Search for a video: Search for a video title in the channel library or on YouTube
Add from URL: Paste a supported media link and add it to the playlist
Embed a custom frame: Embed an <iframe> or <object> tag for media that is not officially supported
- Manage playlists: Save and load playlists from your user account
- Clear playlist: Remove all videos from the playlist
- Shuffle playlist: Randomize the order of the playlist and start playing from the top
- Lock/Unlock playlist: Toggle the locked status of the playlist. Unlocked state is useful for allowing non-moderators to add videos to the playlist. Exact open/locked permissions can be configured under the channel settings permissions editor

On the right are video controls:
- Reload the video player: Remove the current video and load it again (useful for dealing with playback issues)
- Retrieve playlist links: Get a comma-separated list of all the videos in the playlist
- Voteskip: Vote to skip the currently playing video. If enough votes are counted, the next item in the playlist will immediately begin playing

Playlist
The playlist is a list of videos that will be played in order from top to bottom. Each entry will display the title and duration of the video. Each item has a few buttons to perform certain actions, the location of which depends on your user preferences. Click and drag playlist items to rearrange the order.

Item actions:
- Play: Immediately jump to this playlist item and begin playing
- Queue Next: Move this video to the next slot after the currently playing video
- Make Temporary/Permanent: Toggle whether this video will be automatically removed from the playlist after playing once
- Delete: Remove this item from the playlist

Poll Area
The poll area allows moderators to conduct polls. When a moderator opens a poll, a poll box will be added to the poll area. Each option in the poll has a button next to it for you to select that option.

Each IP address can only vote once, and your vote is cleared when you leave the page.
The buttons next to each option will display the number of votes for that option. If it displays "?", then the poll opener has elected to hide the poll results until the poll is over.


Options (User Settings)
At the top of the page, you should see a button labeled "Options". (We’ve made it so that you have to move your mouse over it to appear for Juuban Video.) This will open a dialog that allows you to configure various personal settings. These are divided into 4 categories:

General

Theme
The theme selector allows you to choose a different color scheme for the site. By default there are 4 themes.
- Dark: Slate and Cyborg
- Light: Light and Bootstrap

Layout
The layout selector changes how the elements on the page are positioned and sized.
- Compact and Fluid have chat on the left, video on the right, and polls and the playlist below.
- Synchtube and Synchtube + Fluid are the same as Compact and Fluid except reversed- chat is on the right with video on the left.
- Fluid and Synchtube + Fluid will expand the chat and video to fill the width of your screen, whereas Compact has a static size.
- HD places video on top, then the playlist and chat side by side, then polls below chat.

Ignore Channel CSS
CyTube includes the ability to style channels with CSS. However, you can use this option to override these changes and use the default, plain CSS.

Ignore Channel Javascript
This is analogous to Ignore Channel CSS. If enabled, it will not run any custom javascript from the channel.

Playback

Synchronize video playback
This checkbox controls whether or not your video will be synchronized with the server. If it’s unchecked, you can skip around the video but others in the channel will not be seeing what you see.

Synch threshold
This is the number of seconds representing how close your video will be synchronized with the server. For example, with the default value (2), your video will only be forced to re-sync if it is at least 2 seconds ahead or behind the server. Smaller values indicate more accurate synchronization, but may cause a lot of unnecessary seeking interrupting the video. If you're having trouble with a slow connection, you may want to increase this setting to 5 or 10 seconds.

Set wmode=transparent
The wmode=transparent parameter on the video player allows elements to be rendered over the video like normal. However, on some implementations of Flash (e.g. Linux), this is extremely laggy, this option forces an opaque wmode.

Use Flash for h.264 playback
CyTube attempts to autodetect whether your browser supports native playback for h.264 encoded video files, but if Vimeo videos aren't loading, you can try manually enabling this setting.

Remove the video player
This option will automatically remove the video player every time you load a channel. Useful if you're using CyTube on a computer or in a location where you don't want the video present. You can do a 1 time removal of the video by clicking Layout -> Remove Video from the top of the page.

Hide playlist buttons by default
Instead of "Play / Queue Next / Make Temporary / Delete" buttons being visible on every playlist item, they will start out hidden. You can then right click a playlist item to expand the buttons, and right click it again to hide them.

Old style playlist buttons
This is a legacy feature for people who prefer the icon-style playlist buttons from CyTube 1.0.

Default YouTube quality
This dropdown allows you to select the quality parameter passed to the player when it loads a video.

Chat

Show timestamps in chat
If enabled, prepends a timestamp of the form [HH:MM:SS] to the beginning of each chat message with the time it was sent.

Sort userlist by rank
If enabled, all admins will be sorted to the top of the userlist, followed by moderators, followed by regular users, followed by guests. Within each rank group, names are sorted in alphabetical order.

Sort AFKers to bottom
If enabled, users marked as AFK (away from keyboard) will appear at the bottom of the userlist.

Blink page title on new messages
This option controls whether the page title (on the top of the browser window) will flash (alternates between chatroom title and *Chat*) when certain conditions occur. If set to 'always', it will flash on every new message. If set to 'only when I am mentioned or PMed', it will only flash if your name is present in the message, or the message is a PM. If set to 'never', the page title will not be flashed for any message. Please note this applies only when CyTube is not the active window.

Notification sound on new messages
Same as above, but for playing a notification sound. There's a similar option for desktop notifications as well.

Add a send button to chat
This adds an extra button below the chat box you can click to send a message. This is for devices with soft keyboards that don't have an enter key (because apparently those exist?)

Disable chat emotes
Non-text emotes are displayed as the emote name only with no corresponding image.

Remove images from chat
If image embedding is enabled in chat for the channel, it does not show them. Currently we do not have that enabled for Juuban Video. This option does not disable the chat emote images.

Tab completion method
When typing a username or non-text emote name, you can use the Tab key on your keyboard to autocomplete the name. There are two options here for how it chooses to autocomplete. Typically it won’t matter which one you choose since the audience is usually small and our emote list is still relatively short.

Moderator Preferences
If given moderator permissions for a group event, you will have a few extra options to control how things in the chat appear. There are also extra chat commands you'll be able to use aside from the ones we've displayed on the channel page. For a complete list, see the userguide.

Also, please see the Requests Thread for a list of responsibilities as moderator for a group viewing.